CNDD-FDD

The National Council for the Defense of Democracy - Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) is a big tent and Hutu nationalist political party in Burundi, founded by Pierre Nkurunziza in 1994. The party, founded by Hutu intellectuals and supporters of the assassinated President of Burundi Melchior Ndadaye, was the largest rebel group in the Burundian Civil War, overthrowing the government in 2006. In 2005, the CNDD-FDD became a political party, and Nkurunziza became the dictator of Burundi. Nkurunziza's dictatorial rule led to a failed 2015 coup and political unrest.